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Yeah. Different "justifications" for their evil.
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Alt-Right Infighting Simmers Around Inaugural 'DeploraBall'
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Yeah. Different "justifications" for their evil.
it started out as ironic hatred and following conspiracies about how they run everything, then eventually it became sincere
jack_package_200
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"And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."
dynamitejim
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You can't refer to yourself as a "Deplorable" in a sarcastic manner if you are, in actuality, a deplorable peice of shit. Is not understanding sarcasm an inherent trait among right-wingers? Is this why they read some strangely worded emails and end up believing in a Pizza place being the epicenter of a sex trafficking ring?
I've noticed right-wingers in general have a terrible lack of self awareness. That's why they're so quick to scream at you for stooping to their level.
Seductivpancakes
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Anime avatar strikes again.
Mammoth Jones
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Yup. When poor white people realize they been sold a bunch of horse shit and automation not Mexicans is killing their jobs, and the top 1% not people on welfare sucking the econodry they gonna get real mad*
*at minorities, as usual.
The religious ones dislike Jews because of traditional Christian antisemitism rooted in religious rivalry and Jesus being killed. The Nazi ones hate Jews because they believe Jews are a different race who infiltrate host societies and work their way into positions of power to benefit themselves and not the ethnic group who the land belongs to.
Astral/H3X
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Get out of here with that shit. You're equating enjoying anime to being a nazi. How is this not bannable?
Mammoth Jones
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Lmao. Where is this from? 😂
OniBarubary
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The fact that there is still, and even worse, a growing anti-Semitic sentiment when there are people who lived through the Holocaust still alive today is fucking terrifying.
I think the only good that can come from this coming into the open is the number of well-off, white, Jewish Republicans (my Aunt and Uncle) who voted Republican in the past and voted Trump this year (my Aunt and Uncle) who are now absolutely horrified by what is being said on their side of the alley about them, where they no longer have the privilege to not be affected by hate and prejudice (my Aunt and Uncle).
I think the only good that can come from this coming into the open is the number of well-off, white, Jewish Republicans (my Aunt and Uncle) who voted Republican in the past and voted Trump this year (my Aunt and Uncle) who are now absolutely horrified by what is being said on their side of the alley about them, where they no longer have the privilege to not be affected by hate and prejudice (my Aunt and Uncle).
Speaking as someone who's been watching anime forever, the anime avatar correlation is a real thing.
Theonik
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These are people who believe that Jewish people are engaged in a conspiracy to wipe out the white race through race mixing. Don't try to make sense of this.
Chie Satonaka
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Yep.
After this election, I've learned my lesson, as have people close to me. No more of this.
Risible
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"The Deploraball is apparently an attempt at a sanitized, cuckolded, pro-Jew version of the NPI conference."
FFS do they ever love the term cuckold.
No one is saying that. It's fine to like anime. There is a real corrilation between people posting although right shit, and people with anime avatars. That doesn't mean everyone who likes anime or who has an anime avitar is at roght, or even that all alt righters like anime, but the correlation is there.
yanipheonu
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It really betrays an overriding sense of insecurity behind the whole thing.
Most people don't worry about cuckholding, it's honestly more revealing of their own insecurities.
broncobuster
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Reeks of insecurity.
Astral/H3X
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Bull fucking shit.
I don't even care if this is bait or trolling or just a terrible joke, there's so many times where people get shit on or called terrible people on this forum because.... they like anime? And they use such as an avatar?
How, in any universe, is having a two dimensional picture representing yourself supposed to correlate to thinking that certain races of humanity should be wiped off the planet?
Bull. Fucking. Shit.
That's like saying there's a correlation between people who like the color green, and serial killers. Are there serial killers who like the color green? I'm sure there are. Do the two points have *fucking anything* to do with each other?
Would I get in trouble if I posted a "He mad" picture? I'll let my question stand in its place, because it's sorely needed.
You should save your outrage for the white nationalists who have, in certain online circles like 4chan, willingly adopted the use of anime avatars as one of their binding signal on par with the term "cuck" or Pepe the Frog or the number 88, instead of people for acknowledging the signals.
Imperfected
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You should be angry.
But you should be angry at the alt-right for quite blatantly and purposefully using anime avatars and memes as part of their propaganda machine, not at someone for pointing out to you that they're doing so.
They're basically turning anime into the 21st Century Swastika, and yelling at people who tell you that's what they're doing isn't going to fix the problem.
I'm increasingly confused as to whether they even know what it actually means. How can a conference be cuckolded? Was ComiCon making a move on CPAC behind NPI's back or something?
Man you're getting really mad over this, and I'm not sure why. I like anime, quite a bit but I'm not going to deny a connection when I see one. I'm not going to link news stories because I'm on mobile, but Google "alt right anime avatars", and see for yourself.
Crossing Eden
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Basically. All that's left to do is just sit back and watch a bunch of alt right idiots destroy each other.
Astral/H3X
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What the flying fuck!?
Well, okay, but this isn't 4chan. I think it's safe to assume that people on GAF who are using anime avatars *most likely* aren't freaking Nazis.
I've seen the sentiment, on GAF (and not just in the last year) of people shitting on people just because they like anime. Like, actually the fact that they like anime, not 4chan fucking everything up on the internet. Sorry, I thought this was an extension of that, and now it was just cool to call people who watch anime Nazis because it's always cool on GAF to shit on anime cuz lol. I was angry because I did not know that Nazis actually decided to do this, and thought this was just more GAF shitting on anime. I apologize.
Also fuck 4chan.
Crossing Eden
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But the guy you were responding to didn't say any of that. All he said was "anime avatar strikes again". You just assumed to know what he meant.
Darryl M R
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Cuckold is the IMAX of projecting but hating stuff is easier than liking stuff.
Pop-O-Matic
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Nah, I've seen way too many anime avatars here on GAF post Alt-Reichy shit to not assume the worst of them.
Imperfected
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I think it's as much an affectation as anything.
The alt-right realized the Neo-Nazi movement was made up of a dying breed of backwoods racists and dinosaurs, and they needed to 'invigorate' it with a new generation, so they started looking at the younger generations and trying to figure out where they could identify weaknesses and sympathies.
They identified a group within the younger generations (lonely young men) who had a lot of feelings of resentment and a sense of entitlement they could exploit. They first went after that group through the most obvious vector (video games; see also GamerGate), and then started looking for other useful 'signalling tools' to try and ingratiate themselves, hence anime avatars.
It's like when a sexual predator trying to arrange 'dates' with teenagers uses a pop star avatar, basically.
Astral/H3X
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That's beyond stupid.
Well, I'm not changing my avatar. I took that photo myself and I love it, I'm not gonna let Nazis ruin everything.
Well, I'm not changing my avatar. I took that photo myself and I love it, I'm not gonna let Nazis ruin everything.
Me: "Many alt-right shitposters have anime avatars."
You: "ARE YOU SAYING I'M AN ALT-RIGHT SHITPOSTER?"
It's like "gamers are dead" all over again.
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Crossing Eden
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I mean some of the stuff in the medium itself isn't exactly innocent either which certainly doesn't help. Like how the fuck is that selling millions?
Astral/H3X
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Tbh, this is going to sound really stupid, but I don't even really watch anime itself all that much. I like the art style and character designs in a lot of them, but I'm too busy usually to actually devote time to actually watching them.
I'll watch shows here and there, maybe one or two a year, but this was much more about the (from my perspective) very stupid witch hunt against people because of their avatars. Just seemed dumb, baseless, and entirely too common a thing. And *then* to see a comparison to Nazis, over liking some shows, well that was the button.
But apparently Nazis. :/
It's a medium. Anime can be about literally anything. There are racists TV shows and comic books too.
Here's a good video on the topic. Talib Kweli explains why there's a correlaton between racists/white supremicists and anime avatars on twitter and other social media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nXUOixv3hc
Obviously no one is saying ANY person with an anime avatar on social media is a racist/bigot/misogynist, but there's a strong correlation for it otherwise.
Already Torn
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These people are terrible, but this is really really funny to me. I'm imagining that once they finally manage to get this event pulled together, everyone will spend the whole night just bickering over the most inane shit all night. Just the worst event with the worst people.
Also, anime avatars = bad person is a real thing, but only on Facebook and Twitter.
Also, anime avatars = bad person is a real thing, but only on Facebook and Twitter.
It was both. Nationalsocialism's antisemitism was more "science"-based, but it appealed greatly to large parts of the christian society in Germany.
Now Nazism is more american and appeals to a probably even more crazy christian community.
R10Neymarfan
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Perfect time to post the starter pack meme
Yes and no. If you look at /pol/ for example they tend not to like evangelicals so much since they're seen as being part of the cuckservative thing, but since a lot of them are neoreactionaries they're into (traditionalist) Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Of course you've got your Christian Identity types too. But there's a ton who consider Christianity a Jewish trick and are either atheists or neopagans. And some Hindus.
And then there's the Kekists.
A video from H3H3Production. Don't know which one since he has a lot.
Already Torn
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I love the basement and the boilsPerfect time to post the starter pack meme
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